The materiality of the corporation: Oil, gas, and corporate social technologies in the remaking of a Russian region

In the Perm Region of Russia, recent social and cultural projects sponsored by energy companies prominently reference certain material qualities of oil and gas. The depth associated with the region's oil deposits is evoked in cultural heritage celebrations funded by Lukoil-Perm, and the connect...

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Published in:American ethnologist 2012-05, Vol.39 (2), p.284-296
Main Author: ROGERS, DOUGLAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Corporate culture
Corporate social responsibility
Corporations
Cultural heritage
Cultural institutions
Economic anthropology
Economics
Energy policy
Ethnology
Europa
Festivals
Fossil fuels
Gas
Hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbons
Middle East
Morphological source materials
Natural gas
Natural gas pipelines
Oil companies
Oil industry
Oil pipelines
Perm
Pipelines
Politics
Russia
Russian culture
Sociability
Social development
Social relations. Intercultural and interethnic relations. Collective identity
Social structure and social relations
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Summary:In the Perm Region of Russia, recent social and cultural projects sponsored by energy companies prominently reference certain material qualities of oil and gas. The depth associated with the region's oil deposits is evoked in cultural heritage celebrations funded by Lukoil-Perm, and the connectivity associated with natural gas pipelines figures in PermRegionGaz's efforts to foster new patterns of sociability. Attending to the larger material and semiotic shifts in which these projects are embedded points to a significant dimension of contemporary hydrocarbon politics and to specific ways in which corporations attempt to transform critiques of their operations.
ISSN:0094-0496
1548-1425
DOI:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01364.x